The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-04-09
WISCONSIN NEUS.

ers out OF 81, at La Crosse He had
advertised for fifty laborors at $1.75
g. day. and had collected 81 from
each OF the applicants, when he dis
appeared.
MARIA JAMES, wife Of Charles James,
the anarchist alderman OF Eau Claire,
has secured a divorce on the ground
OF failure to supprot.
THREE hundred and twenty-five
woodsmen attended a reception given
at Eau Clare by the Young Mems
Christian Association.
THE fish commissioner at Madison
has received 5000 eggs OF the brown
trout OF Germany.
A 3-YEAR OLD child OF Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Cichacki, who reside on Grove
| Street, Milwaukee, was shockingly and,
it is thought, fatally scalded on the
1st Inst. The little victim and an
older brother were engaged in play at
the time or the occurrence, when the
latter accidentally tipped over the
stove. which in turn overturned ket-
the OF boiling water over the younger
child. 1t is believed the child cannot
recover.
ABOUT O'Clock on the morning OF
the 3lst, an engine belonging to the
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company
ran through a switch at the mills os
the company at Bay View ard
wrecked the shipping office OF the COM
pany.
BURKE FAIRCHnD, the Dodgeville
wife-murderer, convicted OF man.
slaughter, was, on the 3lst, sentenced
to five years Imprisonment at hard
labor in the State penitentiary. the
| first day to be in solitary conine-
ment.
THE Governor has signed the bill re-
ducing the number OF aldermen in
each ward in the city OF Milwaukee to
two.
| THREE masked men made an unsuc-
cesstul attempt to rob the residence OF
James Ellison, OF Eau Claire.
WILLIAM NICHOLS, of Eau Claire,
has been notified that pension for
which he made application eleven
years ago has been allowed.
THE headquarters of the Wisconsin
| department, Grand Army Of the Re-
puolic, at Eau Claire, have been for
| Dy <ASSiSllit -NbtAShefA
1nspector.G General Bennett.
JOHN MCDONALD is in the hospital
at Eau Claire, suffering from double
fracture of one OF his thighs, a severe
scalp wound, and other injuries re-
ceived in fall from a railroad bridge
across the Chippewa River near Flam-
beau.
ONE OF the prominent candidates
for the office OF treasurer OF Dakota Is
John d. Lawler, banker, OF Mitchell.
He is a son of John Lawler, OF Prai-
RE du Chien, and resided in Wisconsin
for many years.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
caused in Hammond by the discovery
OF gold on the farm OF A. c. Cummings,
one mile west OF there. A speci :; en-
has been examined by chemist and
pronounced pure. A considerable
quantity was dug out OF rock with
penknife.
BERT FAIRCHILD, the aged wife MUIR
derer, was convicted at Mineral Point
OF manslaughter in the frat degree.
The defense contemplates carrying
the case to the supreme court. The
penalty for the degree OF crime OF
which Fairchild was convicted, is i'm
prisonment at hard labor for life.
LA CROSSE saw mills are to be light
ed with electricity.
OHE hundred and eighty-one car
| loads OF coal were received 81 the La
| Crosse coal chute OF the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul during the month
of March.
A CIGAR STAND in the capitol at
Madison was robbed Of 81 and &
quantity OF cigars.
OLE OLEsoN, OF La Crosse, was as
saulted and knocked down by sand
bageers. He escaped with his money.
FIRE destroyed the buildings on this
Michelscheck property at Egg Harbor.
Very little of the household goode
were saved. There was insurance
amounting to $3.50 on the property.
JACOB HENRY, a boy OF IA, pleaded
vitriol at j. q. Fowler, q musician.
Fowler wss passing along q dark
street when the boy slipped up behind
him and threw the vitriol, which
| burned Fowler's clothes, but did not
seriously injure him. The offenders
youth and the fact that he did not
realize the dangerous nature Of vitriol
and threw it with no motive but mis-
chief, caused the Judge TO make his
sentence only eight days il jail.
THOMAS DOUGHERTY, alias Connors,
q burglar and ex-conviCt known to
the authorities all over the northwest
| and who had served terms ia
the Michigan and Minnesota pe1i
| tentiaries was arrested few days
ago for burglary at the residence OF
Andrew Stensaas, Eau Claire, and
brutally beating that gentleman
with the butt OF D. revolver. Dough
erty was brought before Judge Bundy
in the circuit court, and pleaded
guilty to the charge Of burglary and
was sentenced to five years in Wau-
pun penitentiary. He had been opsr-
atipg recently in Ashland and other
| towns in northern Wisconsin and was
in the habit OF openly boasting OF
what be called his profession. He Is
about 2S and came originally from
Iowa. He has respectable relatives
in Minneapolis.
| Gao. OAKLEY, OF Charlestown
while wrestling in Clinton with John
Weeks, was thrown in such a manner
as to fall on his left elbow, causing q
backward dislocation OF the same.
AT New Holstein, Lily, q 10-year-
old daughter OF A. Munster, had her
clothing caught on revolving rod of
q horsepower machine, and the child
| was whirled around the shaft several
| times. One arm was broken and she
wae otherwise seriously injured.
AT Madison, on the 23th, the white
brick three-story residence OF Jam
| E. Ingraham, an Eau Claire lum-
Der man, was damaged to the extent
OF S2, 900, by fire. The flames sprung
from q gasoline stove improperly
managed by servant girl. Miss Ma
bel Ingraham, 10 years OF age, was
found unconscious from smoke in her
bed, and wrapped in bed clothing, was